Sitting At My Desk                                  Score: 0     Moves: 1      
 
 
 
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It is a very strange time and place you find yourself in.
 
Earth. North America. Early 1998.
 
From readily available information, and the pronounced fears of a few politicians and information technology leaders, it is obvious to you that things are about to fall apart. Yet the world at large seems blissfully ignorant. Most citizens pay little attention to history and are unfamiliar with how unusually blessed latter-20th-century North Americans have been.
 
Peace. Prosperity. We live for entertainment, money, and immediate gratification.
 
Most people seem unwilling to believe that the geniuses who've given us all the technology we take for granted could possibly have painted us all into a corner with the Year 2000 century change problem, also known as the "Millennium Bomb" or "Y2K".
 
On the other hand, a small but rapidly growing percentage of people - mostly information workers with above-average intelligence - are already predicting the breakdown of banks, stock markets, aviation, public utilities, ... maybe even society itself.
 
You are an employee of Biritzcom. It is early 1998. Since this is the demo version, there is a demo fairy flitting about your head, limiting your experimentation to 20 moves for each of Uh-Oh!'s 5 phases.
 
(To order the full version, use the ORDERING command.)
 
I suggest you examine your computer ...
 
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                              Uh-Oh! DEMO VERSION
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             An Interactive Adventure You Hope Doesn't Come True
                    (C) 1998  Scott Covert / Future Media
 
Type HELP for instructions, clues and credits at any time.
HINTS (as well as WEAK hints) available in full version only.
(Note: the serial number assigned below is not Year 2000 compliant.)
 
Release 1 / Serial number 980218 / Inform v6.14 Library 6/7
 
Sitting At My Desk
You are sitting at your desk in the very cramped cubicle where you work. To the east there is some standing room.
 
On your desk are a blue disk, a computer (providing light), a phone, a cluttered mess of work-related stuff and a book.
 
Your filing cabinet is closed.
 
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